Kathleen Turner Quotes
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.
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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.
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I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any.
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Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.
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We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.
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I'm not a New York snob.
